Obanikoro disowns posters

Nigeria’s former High Commissioner to Ghana Senator Musiliu Obanikoro yesterday disowned campaign posters that flooded certain parts of Lagos State at the weekend, which presented him as purportedly gunning for the governorship seat in 2015.

Obanikoro, who is currently out of the country, said whatever was the motive behind the move has failed.

He said apart from the fact that the strategy is old-fashioned, the timing was ill-advised and the intention stymied.

Obanikoro said: “It was intended to achieve either of two things: to present me as desperate or a politician of uncompromising tendencies. Both intentions have failed because they can neither push me out in the ring nor stifle me.”